I know I’m not the only one out there hurting. I’m in desperate need of work. I will take just about anything. I’m one of the approximately 10% without a job.
I graduated at one of the worst times in the past thirty years. That 90% who have a job are holding on to it tenaciously. There seem to be very few jobs open. I had the bad luck to graduate college at a time when the economy has sunk very low indeed. Right into the crapper.
I’m currently selling off some of my more valuable and expendable belongings. It’s really a shame, but I can’t for the life of me find a job. I had two interviews earlier this week. I only need a summer job, but since summer is half over, I was forced to lie through my teeth and tell them I needed a job while I awaited a real career job.
I’m one of the lucky ones, I suppose. I actually have a bank account with money in it. However, every cent of that (and a lot more besides) is bespoken. I’m going to graduate school. Like many other people I graduated with, I’ve decided to try to ride out this storm by spending another year in school. Sure, I will be in debt now (I had no undergraduate debt), but I will have a master’s degree and I will have another year for the economy to straighten itself out. By next fall, the prospects may be much, much better. It’s a terrifying prospect, to eat through all of my life’s savings and then some.
But I want to do it and I’m taking the chance. I’m going to be going back to England for a year-long MA program in Publishing at Kingston University, just outside London. I first saw their program about a year ago and daydreamed about it. I didn’t think it would actually happen. A year on and it’s come to fruition. I’m working on getting my visa at the moment. I need to change my flight and I need to gather together the funds (you have to prove that you have a certain amount of money in order to get a visa).
I leave September 15 or 16th. Back to the U.K. I can only hope that I love it as much this time as I did two years ago (God, two years ago!).
And after a year of hard work getting my master’s degree, then what? Only time will tell. My hope is to get a job there at least for a few years. I may even try to stick around long enough for the 2012 Olympics. Of course, the career I’m going into is not very lucrative, but I’ll have to get by the best I can. I will make sacrifices to be able to watch the Olympics in person. Of course I’m going to return to the U.S. sometime. I may even find that I have trouble making ends meet in London, in which case it’s back to the good old U.S. of A., getting a publishing job somewhere stateside. That is my ultimate plan; I want to work my way up and be an agent and locate myself anywhere I choose. Maybe I will locate myself right back here in Cecil County. I do love this place!
So, does this qualify as t.m.i.?





